What a magnificent summer ride we had last Sunday! The Rapha Womens 100 km challenge was a tribute to the Etape du Tour, the day of the Tour de France when amateur cyclists can ride a hill stage of that epic race. The inspiration [...][Continue Reading...]

Each year the first signs of fall (a smell in the air, a short day, a cool breeze) get brushed aside as false portents. But, it seems, as soon as that first ruddy leaf is ignored, New England explodes with color and I have already [...][Continue Reading...]

I love riding along streets lined with shops, restaurants, clubs and low-rise apartment buildings and tenements in the East Village and on the Lower East Side. The area’s bike-friendliness is revealed not only in the satisfying lattice of protected bicycle paths and bike lanes on [...][Continue Reading...]

The village of Sag Harbor provided the scenic backdrop for our first women’s summer ride in celebration of the launch of our online Hamptons Riding Guide. Thanks to the awesome ladies (and one gent) who joined Kim, Genevieve and me for a relaxed, 14-mile [...][Continue Reading...]

We’ve focused recently on demystifying the journey to enjoying all the fun and benefits of riding a bicycle in New York City. When I think about my own experiences as a city cycling newbie, I had a ton of questions and I would have [...][Continue Reading...]

One of my favorite places for a fall weekend bicycle ride is Henry Hudson Road, known to local cyclists as River Road, along the cliffs of the Palisades in New Jersey. The always-spectacular views of the George Washington Bridge and of Manhattan and points [...][Continue Reading...]

For the month of April, I signed on for the 30 Days of Biking challenge. It’s as simple as it sounds: you register at www.30daysofbiking.com and pledge to ride your bike every day, then share updates via social media. This is my half-time (plus [...][Continue Reading...]

Update: Rain, rain wouldn’t go away, so the “Get Fancy Bike Ride” has been postponed until March 31. Please check back for further details! With the New York City winter seeming to drag on forever — and the bike lanes feeling a little wind-blown and [...][Continue Reading...]

With apologies to T.S. Eliot, February is the cruelest month. But it’s also the shortest. And Valentine’s Day is parked right in the middle. So despite leaden skies, endless rivers of slush and major grumpiness in the bike lanes, this is no time to succumb [...][Continue Reading...]

Riding a bicycle in Manhattan, especially if you’re a beginner or new to the city, can feel intimidating, what with impatient motorists, “salmoning” cyclists and, oh yeah, pedestrians heedlessly tapping away at their smart phones. Even when cruising the growing network of bike lanes that [...][Continue Reading...]